Re: Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-30 Thread creecode
Hello Joshua, On Apr 30, 2:34 am, Joshua Partogi wrote: > it seems that EC2 is not reliable though > scalable. I don't think this is the case. I've been running an instance for months with no more issues than if I'd been running on my own hardware. If you take sensible backup and other preca

Re: Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-30 Thread Jörn Paessler
Hi Joshua, we do not have public AMIs to offer, but if you logon to Amazon's Management Console and search for "django" under AMIs you find at least three public images: I reckon this should be a good start. Best Joern

Re: Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-30 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi Jörn, Thank you very much for sharing your experience. We were going to use it for a community site, but it seems that EC2 is not reliable though scalable. This is a tough choice. :-( Any chance that you already created an AMI for this that perhaps you can share with the community? Best rega

Re: Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-30 Thread Joshua Partogi
Hi creecode, Thanks very much for sharing your experience with django on EC2. We really appreciate it. :-) It made us more confident that it is more suitable than AppEngine. Best regards, On Apr 29, 5:28 pm, creecode wrote: > Hello Joshua, > > I don't have any detail or tips.  You just need to

Re: Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-29 Thread Jörn Paessler
Hi Joshua, we have been hosting our django sites on EC2 for about 9 months now. We are quite happy with it but there are some things you have to take care of: - we recently had a downtime, because the host system crashed. We had a new instance up and running pretty fast but you have to keep

Re: Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-29 Thread creecode
Hello Joshua, I don't have any detail or tips. You just need to get to grips with using EC2 and then install Django on your instance. I've been using Django on an EC2 instance since late last year and they work fine together. I use S3 as my main media server via S3Storage. On Apr 28, 8:41 pm,

Django on Amazon EC2

2009-04-28 Thread Joshua Partogi
Dear all, In favor of choosing Google app engine to run our Django apps, we are also considering Amazon EC2 because from what we've read we are not tightly locked into Google API. Has anyone here had any experience on deploying django apps on Amazon EC2 that would like to share their experience

Article: "Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way"

2008-09-08 Thread Jörn Paessler
Hi altogether, I found an interesting article "Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way" on delicious hotlist: <http://thomas.broxrost.com/2008/08/21/persistent-django-on-amazon-ec2-and-ebs-the-easy-way/